Leave Meg White Alone, Jack

Lachlan Markay did nothing wrong

Okay, let’s settle this once and for all: Should women be allowed to play the drums?

Ha ha, just kidding! Of course they shouldn’t.

No, but seriously. Last week Jack White, Questlove, Tom Morello, and probably some other once-prominent musicians got upset at a journalist on the internet for saying Meg White, drummer for the White Stripes, stinks on ice.

Markay was replying to a recent National Review piece titled, “The Song of the Century Turns 20.” I’m not sure “Seven Nation Army” is the song of the century, exactly, but just reading the title puts that unmistakable riff in my head and now it’ll be stuck there all day. With a hook like that, you could catch the shark from Jaws.

But Markay thinks the song was ruined by the drums.

Okay.

So what?